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T. PINK. REGISTERING APPARATUS,GHIEPLY FOR AMOUNTS DUE FOR PIECE WORK.

Patented Nov. 3, 1891 mmms vcrzns cm. moTo um UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS PINK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

REGISTERING APPARATUS, CHIEFLY FOR AMOUNTS DUE FOR PIECE-WORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,365, dated November 3, 1891. Application filed August 6, 1890. gerial No. 861,186. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THoMAs PINK, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Bermondsey, London, England, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Registering Apparatus, Ohiefiy Designed for Registering Amounts Due for Piece-Work, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for registering the amounts due for piece-work and for similar purposes; and it comprises a device, hereinafter termed a workmans register, which is capable of having registered upon it the amounts due to a Workman for work done, and a second device, termed a foremans register, adapted to have registered upon it the sum of the amounts registered upon several workmens registers.

According to my invention the workmans register comprises a case the face of which is provided with dials for indicating pounds, shillings, and pence, or other values, the fingers working over the said dials being geared together in a well-known manner, so that they can be operated by depressing or pushing a key or the like against a ratchet or other de vice for operating the train of wheels.

The foremans register is constructed in substantially the same manner as the workmans register, except that the dials are adapted to register a larger amount, in order to register the sum of the amounts indicated upon several workmens registers. This foremans register is advantageously constructed with a key or pusher, the outer end of which is designed for operating the workmens registers. WVith this construction it will be understood that when a workmans register is pushed onto the projecting key of the foremans register the same movement will operate both the said workmans and the foremans register, the number of pushes corresponding to the amount to be registered. By applying the workmens registers one after the other the amountindicated on each workmans register will be added to the amount indicated by the foremans register.

To enable my invention to be fully understood, I will describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front View of a workmans register constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 00 0c of Fig. 2, showing the mechanism in side elevation;and Fig. l is a section on the line y y, Fig. 3, showing the mechanism in plan. Fig. 5isaview similar to Fig. 1 of the foremans registering mechanism, and Fig. 0 is a view similar to Fig. 3 of the mechanism of the foremans register.

The workmans and the foremans register are constructed in substantiallythe same manner-that is to say, each of them is provided with an outer case a, one side I) of which is advantageously formed of glass and has arranged behind it a face having a series of dials graduated according to the amount to be registeredt0r instance, for pounds, shillings, and pence, or for dollars and cents-a finger "or pointer 0 working in conjunction with each dial, which fingers or pointers c c are operated by a train of gearing (Z in a wellknown manner, or; they may be operated by any other suitable means. The arbor of the first-motion wheel of the train of gearinghas secured to it a ratchet-wheel e, and in engagement with this ratchet-wheel is a pawl f, carried by an arm g, projecting from a block 71, adapted to slide in a tubular guided, the arm g projecting through a slot in the side of the guide. It will be obvious that when the block 71. is pushed backward in the tubular guided motion will be imparted to the ratchet-wheel e and thence to the train of gearing, the amount indicated upon the dials corresponding to the number of movements imparted to the said block. Springs 7c serve to return the block to its normal position.

The tubular guided of the workm ans register is provided with a tubular extension 1, adapted to enter the guide "5 of the foremans register to move the block h therein, and secured to the end of the guide 1' is a rod m, adapted to pass through the tubular extension Z of the workmans register into the tubular guide i in order to operate the block h of the said workmans register.

will be obvious that when the rod on of the foremans registeris introd need in to the guide 2' of the workmans andforemans register and the said workmans and foremansregister \Vith this construction it I pressed toward each other the two blocks It will be simultaneously moved and so cause a corresponding rotation to be recorded upon the respective dials.

n is a spring-detent pawl, with which each apparatus is provided to prevent the movement of the ratchet-wheel in a backward direction.

In order to prevent the workmans register from being operated by the introduction of a plain rod into the tubular guide and to prevent the foremans register from being operated by simply pressing a tube into its guide, I provide for normally locking each block in its guide. ForthispurposeIadvantageouslyprovide each block h with an upward extension 0, to which are pivoted two tumblers p p, each of which has at or nearone end pins or projections q q, and in connection with the tubular guide 2' is arranged a locking-plate 7*, having an aperture therethrough sufficiently large to allow the pins or projections q qto pass when the tumblers p p are raised to a certain position, but which when the said tumblers are in their normal position forms an abutment against which the pins q q can bear to prevent the movement of the block h relatively to the tubular guide. Each tumbler is also provided with an arm 3, projecting into the tube 1', and the ends of-the tubular extension Z and the rod m are so shaped that when they are introduced into the respective guides they will first of all lift the tumblers to the required position to allow their pins q q to pass through the openings in the locking-plates 'r and then push the blocks h backward.

In using the apparatus hereinbefore described the workmans register is retained by the workman, while the foremans register is kept by a foreman. IV hen a workman has completed a certain amount of work, the foreman, having passed it, takes the workmans register and indicates on such register in the manner hereinbefore described the amount due to the workman for such work, the amount being at the same time indicated upon the foremans register. This operation is repeated with each workman, the total of the amounts allowed by the foreman being indicated upon the foremans register.

In some cases it may be advisable to arrange a key or pusher in connection with each dial of the workmans register and of the foremans register, so that, say, shillings may be indicated without it being necessary to add each penny of the amounts separately.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. Registering apparatus comprising two essential parts, each of which is provided with a registering mechanism, a locking mechanism, and a key or unlocking mechanism, the lock and key of one apparatus adapted to actuate the lock and key of the other apparatus and operate the respective registering mechanisms simultaneously.

2. Registering apparatus comprising two essential parts, each of which parts is provided with registering mechanism and a key or pusher, said registering mechanism adapted to be operated by the key or pusher on the other part, the said keys or pushers being adapted to fit one Within the other, so that both sets of registering mechanism can be operated simultaneously, substantially as described.

3. In registering apparatus comprising two parts adapted to be connected and operated simultaneously, the combination in each part of a train of gearing, a block sliding in a tubular guide and carrying a pawl engaging with a ratchet-wheel secured to the arbor of one of the wheels of the train of gearing, and a key or pusher adapted to operate the block of the other part, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name this 23d day of July, 1890.

THOMAS PINK.

\Vitnesses:

J OHN E. BOUSFIELD, Of thcfi'rm of G. F. Redfern d2 00., l South St, Ft'nsbm'y, London, Patent Agents.

A. L. ALBUTT. 

